Truthout
Op-Ed
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The Tea Party Republicans’ Biggest Mistake: Confusing Government with Our System of Government
The radicals who tried to hijack America didnu2019t understand one very basic thing. While most Americans donu2019t like big government, Americans revere our system of government.
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Grenada’s IMF Sunday School
Religious leaders in Grenada are inserting themselves into conversations about international finance and holding corporations accountable for the economic structure of the island.
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Living the Orwellian Life
America has a tradition of spying on its own, something George Orwell predicted long ago in his novel 1984.
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The American Public’s Shocking Lack of Policy Knowledge is a Threat to Progress and Democracy
If the public is as dramatically uninformed as polls show about an array of critical issues, including the Affordable Care Act, democracy is seriously threatened, argues Doolittle.
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Time to Close Guantanamo
President Obama continues to ignore the situation in Guantanamo and has 18 prisoners being force-fed.
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Why Won’t The Press Police Radical Republicans?
Eager to maintain a political symmetry in which both sides are responsible for sparking conflict, the press effectively gives Republicans a pass for adopting truly outside-the-norm behavior.
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Subsidizing Economic Inequality
The push to privatize the public sector through contracting out is expanding our economic divide.
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Boehner in the Catbird’s Seat
By taking up the Obamacare battle, Boehner's grip on the speakership may be tightening, not loosening.
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Star Trek and the NSA
In which the head of the NSA is found to have more in common with the Borg than with Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
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Refocusing Anti-Drone Activism
Drones aren't the problem. The problem is the Global War on Terror's tactics of targeted assassinations, kill lists, signature strikes, violations of the sovereignty of nations, etc.